Mary Curry > Mary's Quotes

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
― George Carlin

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace